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Category100 of 139 books309 recommendations total

Management books recommended most by operators and executives — hiring, feedback, organisational design and the day-to-day of running teams. Ranked by how many people recommended each title.

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Book cover for “The Score Takes Care of Itself”
The Score Takes Care of Itself

My Philosophy of Leadership

20 recommendations
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Available recommendation signals cluster around Leadership, Management, NonFiction, Business, Sports lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for business judgment, leadership, or practical strategy. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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Book cover for “Start with Why”
Start with Why

How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

20 recommendations
Description

The inspiring, life-changing bestseller by the author of LEADERS EAT LAST and TOGETHER IS BETTER In 2009, Simon Sinek started a movement to help people become more inspired at work, and in turn inspire their colleagues and customers. Since then, millions have been touched by the power of his ideas, including more than 28 million who have watched his TED Talk based on Start With Why -- the third most popular TED video of all time. Sinek opens by asking some fundamental questions: Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their success over and over? Start With Why shows that the leaders who've had the greatest influence in the world--think Martin Luther King Jr., Steve Jobs, and the Wright Brothers--all think, act, and communicate the same way -- and it's the opposite of what everyone else does. Sinek calls this powerful idea 'The Golden Circle,' and it provides a framework upon which organizations can be built, movements can be led, and people can be inspired. And it all starts with WHY.

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Book cover for “The Effective Executive”
The Effective Executive

The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials)

19 recommendations
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Available recommendation signals cluster around Business, Leadership, Management, NonFiction, Entrepreneur lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for business judgment, leadership, or practical strategy. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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Book cover for “Only the Paranoid Survive”
Only the Paranoid Survive

How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company

15 recommendations
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Available recommendation signals cluster around Business, Management, NonFiction lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for business judgment, leadership, or practical strategy. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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Book cover for “The Mythical Man-Month”
The Mythical Man-Month

Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)

15 recommendations
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Available recommendation signals cluster around Management, Engineering, NonFiction, Programming, Business lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for business judgment, leadership, or practical strategy. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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Book cover for “Trillion Dollar Coach”
Trillion Dollar Coach

The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell

13 recommendations
Recommendation Context
Available recommendation signals cluster around Leadership, Management, NonFiction, Business lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for business judgment, leadership, or practical strategy. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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Book cover for “Radical Candor”
Radical Candor

Fully Revised and Updated Edition

12 recommendations
Description

From the time we learn to speak, we?re told that if you don?t have anything nice to say, don?t say anything at all. While this advice may work for everyday life, it is, as Kim Scott has seen, a disaster when adopted by managers.Scott earned her stripes as a highly successful manager at Google and then decamped to Apple, where she developed a class ...

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No coverThe 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership
The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership

A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success

11 recommendations
Description

You’ll never see leadership the same way again after reading this book. These fifteen commitments are a distillation of decades of work with CEOs and other leaders. They are radical or provocative for many. They have been game changers for us and for our clients. We trust that they will be for you too. Our experience is that unconscious leadership ...

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What You Do Is Who You Are

How to Create Your Business Culture

11 recommendations
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Available recommendation signals cluster around Leadership, Management, NonFiction, Business lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for business judgment, leadership, or practical strategy. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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No coverTurn the Ship Around!
Turn the Ship Around!

A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders

10 recommendations
Description

"Leadership should mean giving control rather than taking control and creating leaders rather than forging followers." David Marquet, an experienced Navy officer, was used to giving orders. As newly appointed captain of the USS Santa Fe, a nuclearpowered submarine, he was responsible for more than a hundred sailors, deep in the sea. In this highs...

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Book cover for “Tribal Leadership”
Tribal Leadership

Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization

10 recommendations
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Available recommendation signals cluster around Leadership, Management, NonFiction, Business lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for business judgment, leadership, or practical strategy. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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No coverThe Making of a Manager
The Making of a Manager

What to Do When Everyone Looks to You

9 recommendations
Description

Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller! Congratulations, you're a manager! After you pop the champagne, accept the shiny new title, and step into this thrilling next chapter of your career, the truth descends like a fog: you don't really know what you're doing.That's exactly how Julie Zhuo felt when she became a rookie manager at the age of 25. She...

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Book cover for “Negotiating the Impossible”
Negotiating the Impossible

How to Break Deadlocks and Resolve Ugly Conflicts (without Money or Muscle)

7 recommendations
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Available recommendation signals cluster around Leadership, Management, NonFiction, Business, Personal Development lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for business judgment, leadership, or practical strategy. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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Powerful

Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility

7 recommendations
Description

When it comes to recruiting, motivating, and creating great teams, Patty McCord says most companies have it all wrong. McCord helped create the unique and highperforming culture at Netflix, where she was chief talent officer. In her new book, Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility, she shares what she learned there and elsewher...

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Book cover for “Leaders Eat Last”
Leaders Eat Last

Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't

7 recommendations
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Available recommendation signals cluster around Leadership, NonFiction, Business lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for business judgment, leadership, or practical strategy. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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No coverWork Rules!
Work Rules!

Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead

6 recommendations
Description

From the visionary head of Google's innovative People Operations comes a groundbreaking inquiry into the philosophy of workand a blueprint for attracting the most spectacular talent to your business and ensuring that they succeed. "We spend more time working than doing anything else in life. It's not right that the experience of work should be so ...

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Book cover for “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team”
6 recommendations
Description

In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni once again offers a leadership fable that is as enthralling and instructive as his first two bestselling books, The Five Temptations of a CEO and The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive. This time, he turns his keen intellect and storytelling power to the fascinating, complex world of t...

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The Goal

A Process of Ongoing Improvement

6 recommendations
Description

Written in a fastpaced thriller style, 'The Goal' contains a serious message for all managers in industry and explains the ideas which underline the Theory of Constraints developed by the author....

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No coverGood Strategy Bad Strategy
Good Strategy Bad Strategy

The Difference and Why It Matters

6 recommendations
Description

Clears out the mumbo jumbo and muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful actionoriented strategy for the real world Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader, whether the CEO at a Fortune 100 company, an entrepreneur, a church pastor, the head of a schoo...

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Who

The A Method for Hiring

6 recommendations
Description

In this instant New York Times Bestseller, Geoff Smart and Randy Street provide a simple, practical, and effective solution to what The Economist calls "the single biggest problem in business today" unsuccessful hiring. The average hiring mistake costs a company $1.5 million or more a year and countless wasted hours. This statistic becomes even mor...

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No coverHow Google Works
5 recommendations
Description

Seasoned Google executives Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg provide an insider's guide to Google, from its business history and disruptive corporate strategy to developing a new managment philosophy and creating a corporate culture where innovation and creativity thrive. Seasoned Google executives Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg provide an i...

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No coverLights Out
Lights Out

Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric

5 recommendations
Description

How could General Electric—perhaps America’s most iconic corporation—suffer such a swift and sudden fall from graceThis is the definitive history of General Electric’s epic decline, as told by the two Wall Street Journal reporters who covered its fall.Since its founding in 1892, GE has been more than just a corporation. For generations, it was job...

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No coverHow to Measure Anything
How to Measure Anything

Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business

4 recommendations
Description

This new edition continues to boldly assert that any perception of immeasurability is based on certain popular misconceptions about measurement and measurement methods. It shows the common reasoning for calling something immeasurable, and sets out to correct those ideas. Practical methods for measuring a variety of intangibles are explained includi...

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No coverCompetitive Strategy
Competitive Strategy

Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors

4 recommendations
Description

Now nearing its 60th printing in English and translated into nineteen languages, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Strategy has transformed the theory, practice, and teaching of business strategy throughout the world. Electrifying in its simplicity like all great breakthroughs Porter's analysis of industries captures the complexity of industry ...

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No coverThe Systems Bible
The Systems Bible

The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small

4 recommendations
Description

Hardcover published by Quadragle/The New York Times Book Co., third printing, August 1977, copyright 1975....

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No coverDo the Work
Do the Work

Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way

4 recommendations
Description

Do the WorkOur enemy is not lack of preparation; it's not the difficulty of the project, or the state of the marketplace or the emptiness of our bank account.The enemy is resistance.The enemy is our chattering brain, which, if we give it so much as a nanosecond, will start producing excuses, alibis, transparent selfjustifications and a million rea...

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No coverLean Thinking
Lean Thinking

Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation

3 recommendations
Description

Expanded, updated, and more relevant than ever, this bestselling business classic by two internationally renowned management analysts describes a business system for the twenty-first century that supersedes the mass production system of Ford, the financial control system of Sloan, and the strategic system of Welch and GE. It is based on the Toyota ...

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Remote

Office Not Required

3 recommendations
Description

The ?work from home? phenomenon is thoroughly explored in this illuminating new book from bestselling 37signals founders Fried and Hansson, who point to the surging trend of employees working from home (and anywhere else) and explain the challenges and unexpected benefits. Most important, they show why ? with a few controversial exceptions such as...

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No coverUnderstanding Michael Porter
Understanding Michael Porter

The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy

3 recommendations
Description

Competitive advantage. The value chain. Five forces. Industry structure. Differentiation. Relative cost. If you want to understand how companies achieve and sustain competitive success, Michael Porter’s frameworks are the foundation. But while everyone in business may know Porter’s name, many managers misunderstand and misuse his concepts.Understan...

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No coverTeam of Teams
Team of Teams

New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

3 recommendations
Description

The retired fourstar general and and bestselling author of My Share of the Task shares a powerful new leadership model As commander of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), General Stanley McChrystal played a crucial role in the War on Terror. But when he took the helm in 2004, America was losing that war badly: despite vastly inferior resource...

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No coverMonetizing Innovation
Monetizing Innovation

How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price

3 recommendations
Description

The book explains how most companies get sidetracked by ProductDriven Thinking and how to innovate by starting with the price customers will pay, and creating the product for that price. It will present a process that SimonKucher & Partners has used to help dozens of others avoid innovation failure by making pricing and marketing their guiding li...

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No coverThe Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive
3 recommendations
Description

In this stunning followup to his bestselling book, The Five Temptations of a CEO, Patrick Lencioni offers up another leadership fable that's every bit as compelling and illuminating as its predecessor. This time, Lencioni's focus is on a leader's crucial role in building a healthy organizationan often overlooked but essential element of busines...

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No coverThe Ten Commandments for Business Failure
Description

Don Keough—a former top executive at CocaCola and now chairman of the elite investment banking firm Allen & Company—has witnessed plenty of failures in his sixtyyear career (including New Coke). He has also been friends with some of the most successful people in business history, including Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Jack Welch, Rupert Murdoch, a...

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Book cover for “The Startup Owner's Manual”
The Startup Owner's Manual

The StepByStep Guide for Building a Great Company

3 recommendations
Description

More than 100,000 entrepreneurs rely on this book for detailed, stepbystep instructions on building successful, scalable, profitable startups. The National Science Foundation pays hundreds of startup teams each year to follow the process outlined in the book, and it's taught at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and more than 100 other leading universi...

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No coverHug Your Haters
Hug Your Haters

How to Embrace Complaints and Keep Your Customers

2 recommendations
Description

Haters are not your problem. . . . Ignoring them is. Eighty percent of companies say they deliver out­standing customer service, but only 8 percent of their customers agree. This book will help you close that gap by reconfiguring your customer service to deliver knockout experiences. The nearuniversal adoption of smartphones and social media has...

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Book cover for “My Years with General Motors”
Description

My Years with General Motors became an instant bestseller when it was first published in 1963. It has since been used as a manual for managers, offering personal glimpses into the practice of the "discipline of management" by the man who perfected it. This is the story no other businessman could tella distillation of half a century of intimate le...

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Permission Marketing

Turning Strangers into Friends and Friends into Customers

2 recommendations
Description

The man Business Week calls "the ultimate entrepreneur for the Information Age" explains "Permission Marketing"?the groundbreaking concept that enables marketers to shape their message so that consumers will willingly accept it.Whether it is the TV commercial that breaks into our favorite program, or the telemarketing phone call that disrupts a fam...

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No coverSimply Brilliant
Simply Brilliant

How Great Organizations Do Ordinary Things in Extraordinary Ways

2 recommendations
Description

The cofounder of Fast Company shows that opportunities for extraordinary innovation may be closer than you think. A new era of business and leadership cries out for new stories of success, and new strategies for bringing them to life. Today, the way to win big, argues bestselling author William C. Taylor, is to relentlessly rethink the everyday. Th...

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No coverLearn or Die
Learn or Die

Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization

2 recommendations
Description

To compete with today's increasing globalization and rapidly evolving technologies, individuals and organizations must take their ability to learnthe foundation for continuous improvement, operational excellence, and innovationto a much higher level. In Learn or Die, Edward D. Hess combines recent advances in neuroscience, psychology, behaviora...

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No coverOrganizing Genius
Organizing Genius

The Secrets of Creative Collaboration

2 recommendations
Description

Uncovers the elements of creative collaboration by examining six of the century's most extraordinary groups and distill their successful practices into lessons that virtually any organization can learn and commit to in order to transform its own management into a collaborative and successful group of leaders. Paper. DLC: Organizational effectivenes...

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No coverThe Oz Principle
The Oz Principle

Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability

2 recommendations
Description

A decade ago, The Oz Principle took the business world by storm. At its root, the principle works like this: Like Dorothy and the gang in The Wizard of Oz, most businesspeople have the tools to succeed, but when things go wrong they blame circumstance or others instead of looking within for the true cause of unsatisfactory results. Once individuals...

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Book cover for “What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School”
What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School

Notes from a Street-smart Executive

2 recommendations
Description

This business classic features straighttalking advice you'll never hear in school. Featuring a new foreword by Ariel Emanuel and Patrick WhitesellMark H. McCormack, one of the most successful entrepreneurs in American business, is widely credited as the founder of the modernday sports marketing industry. On a handshake with Arnold Palmer and less...

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Book cover for “Creating Shareholder Value”
Creating Shareholder Value

A Guide for Managers and Investors

2 recommendations
Description

Economist, consultant, and Wall Street Journal contributor Alfred Rappaport provides managers and investors with the practical tools and tests for a corporate strategy that creates shareholder value.The ultimate test of corporate strategy, the only reliable measure, is whether it creates economic value for shareholders. After a decade of downsizing...

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No coverNine Lies About Work
Nine Lies About Work

A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World

2 recommendations
Description

Forget what you know about the world of workYou crave feedback. Your organization's culture is the key to its success. Strategic planning is essential. Your competencies should be measured and your weaknesses shored up. Leadership is a thing.These may sound like basic truths of our work lives today. But actually, they're lies. As strengths guru and...

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No coverExponential Organizations
Exponential Organizations

Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than yours (and what to do about it)

2 recommendations
Description

In business, performance is key. In performance, how you organize can be the key to growth. In the past five years, the business world has seen the birth of a new breed of company the Exponential Organization that has revolutionized how a company can accelerate its growth by using Technology,....

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Book cover for “Competing in the Age of AI”
Competing in the Age of AI

Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World

2 recommendations
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Available recommendation signals cluster around ificial, Intelligence, Management, Strategic, Thinking lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for creative discipline, craft, or artistic motivation. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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Book cover for “Lean Solutions”
Lean Solutions

How Companies and Customers can Create Value and Wealth Together

2 recommendations
Description

In this landmark new book, James Womack and Daniel Jones deconstruct this broken producerconsumer model and show businesses how to repair it.A massive disconnect exists between consumers and providers today. Consumers have a greater selection of higher quality goods to choose from and can obtain these items from a growing number of sources. Comput...

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No coverMultipliers
Multipliers

How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

2 recommendations
Description

A revised and updated edition of the acclaimed Wall Street Journal bestseller that explores why some leaders drain capability and intelligence from their teams while others amplify it to produce better results.We?ve all had experience with two dramatically different types of leaders. The first type drains intelligence, energy, and capability from t...

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An Everyone Culture

Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization

2 recommendations
Description

New...

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No coverAct Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader
Description

You aspire to lead with greater impact. The problem is you're busy executing on today's demands. You know you have to carve out time from your day job to build your leadership skills, but it's easy to let immediate problems and old mindsets get in the way.Herminia Ibarra?an expert on professional leadership and development and a renowned professor...

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Book cover for “The First 90 Days”
The First 90 Days

Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter, Updated and Expanded

1 recommendation
Description

Since its original release, The First 90 Days has become the bestselling globally acknowledged bible of leadership and career transitions. In this updated and expanded 10th anniversary edition, internationally known leadership transition expert Michael D. Watkins gives you the keys to successfully negotiating your next move?whether you?re onboardin...

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Execution

The Discipline of Getting Things Done

1 recommendation
Description

"Execution may very well be the best business book of the year, and one of the most useful to have come around in a long time. This smart and pithy book focuses on a simple though vexing challenge: How can the leaders of an organization exhort their people to deliver on the most important goals....It's rare to find a book like this that blends sma...

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No coverFirst, Break All the Rules
First, Break All the Rules

What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

1 recommendation
Description

Gallup presents the remarkable findings of its revolutionary study of more than 80,000 managers in First, Break All the Rules, revealing what the world?s greatest managers do differently. With vital performance and career lessons and ideas for how to apply them, it is a mustread for managers at every level....

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Book cover for “Direct from Dell”
Direct from Dell

Strategies that Revolutionized an Industry (Collins Business Essentials)

1 recommendation
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Available recommendation signals cluster around Management, NonFiction, Autobiographies, Entrepreneurship, Business lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for business judgment, leadership, or practical strategy. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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No coverThe Mom Test
The Mom Test

How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

1 recommendation
Description

The Mom Test is a quick, practical guide that will save you time, money, and heartbreak. They say you shouldn't ask your mom whether your business is a good idea, because she loves you and will lie to you. This is technically true, but it misses the point. You shouldn't ask anyone if your business is a good idea. It's a bad question and everyone wi...

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Book cover for “The 4 Disciplines of Execution”
The 4 Disciplines of Execution

Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals

1 recommendation
Description

?The 4 Disciplines of Execution is a book every leader should read.? ?Clayton Christensen, Professor, Harvard Business School, and author of The Innovator?s Dilemma For fans of Good to Great and The First 90 Days, The Four Disciplines of Execution is the foundational text for creating lasting organizational change. A #1 Wall Street Journal bestsell...

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Book cover for “It's Your Ship”
It's Your Ship

Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy, 10th Anniversary Edition

1 recommendation
Description

The legendary New York Times bestselling tale of topdown change for anyone trying to navigate today's uncertain business seas. When Captain Abrashoff took over as commander of USS Benfold, it was like a business that had all the latest Technology, but only some of the productivity. Knowing that responsibility for improving performance rested with h...

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No coverThe Coaching Habit
The Coaching Habit

Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever

1 recommendation
Description

Coaching is an essential skill for leaders. But for most busy, overworked managers, coaching employees is done badly, or not at all. They?re just too busy, and it?s too hard to change. But what if managers could coach their people in 10 minutes or less In Michael Bungay Stanier?s The Coaching Habit, coaching becomes a regular, informal part of yo...

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No coverThe Fearless Organization
The Fearless Organization

Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth

1 recommendation
Description

Conquer the most essential adaptation to the knowledge economyThe Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth offers practical guidance for teams and organizations who are serious about success in the modern economy. With so much riding on innovation, creativity, and spark, it is essent...

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No coverHow to Lead
How to Lead

Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers

1 recommendation
Description

The essential leadership playbook. Learn the principles and guiding philosophies of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Warren Buffet, Oprah, and many others through illuminating conversations about their remarkable lives and careers. For the past five years, David M. Rubenstein?author of The American Story, visionary cofounder of The Carl...

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No coverLeading Change, With a New Preface by the Author
Description

The international bestsellernow with a new preface by author John Kotter.Millions worldwide have read and embraced John Kotters ideas on change management and leadership.From the illfated dotcom bubble to unprecedented M&A activity to scandal, greed, and ultimately, recessionweve learned that widespread and difficult change is no longer the excep...

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No coverSmart Choices
Smart Choices

A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions

1 recommendation
Description

Where should I live Is it time to get a new job Which job candidate should I hire What business strategy should I pursueWe spend the majority of our lives making decisions, both big and small. Yet, even though our success is largely determined by the choices that we make, very few of us are equipped with useful decisionmaking skills. Because o...

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No coverLeadership
Description

THE "SEMINAL BOOK ON POWER" (NEW YORK TIMES) THAT "CONTINUES TO DOMINATE THE FIELD" (HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW) "A landmark historian" (Jon Meacham), James MacGregor Burns, winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, devoted his legendary career to the study of leadership in all its aspects?from politics to business. Leadership, Burns'...

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No coverBillion Dollar Lessons
Billion Dollar Lessons

What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Ye ars

Description

?This book is your chance to learn from others? mistakes.? Entrepreneur In the 1960s, IBM CEO Tom Watson called an executive into his office after his venture lost $10 million. The man assumed he was being fired. Watson told him, ?Fired Hell, I spent $10 million educating you. I just want to be sure you learned the right lessons.? There are thou...

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Book cover for “Bargaining for Advantage”
Bargaining for Advantage

Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People

Recommendation Context
Available recommendation signals cluster around Management, NonFiction, Business lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for business judgment, leadership, or practical strategy. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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Book cover for “Coaching Salespeople into Sales Champions”
Coaching Salespeople into Sales Champions

A Tactical Playbook for Managers and Executives

Description

Sales training doesn't develop sales champions. Managers do.The secret to developing a team of high performers isn't more training but better coaching. When managers effectively coach their people around best practices, core competencies and the inner game of coaching that develops the champion attitude, it makes your training stick. With Keith Ros...

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No coverKey Performance IndicatorsePub eBook
Key Performance IndicatorsePub eBook

The 75 measures every manager needs to know (Financial Times Series)

Description

By identifying and describing the most powerful financial and nonfinancial KPIs, this book will make life easier for you by defining them, explaining how and when they should be used and providing a rich library of KPIs that have been proven to significantly improve performance.The book presents case examples to illustrate the selection and use of...

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No coverStrategic Project Management Made Simple
Strategic Project Management Made Simple

Practical Tools for Leaders and Teams

Description

When Fortune Magazine estimated that 70% of all strategies fail, it also noted that most of these strategies were basically sound, but could not be executed. The central premise of Strategic Project Management Made Simple is that most projects and strategies never get off the ground because of adhoc, haphazard, and obsolete methods used to turn the...

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No coverHBR Guide to Project Management
Description

MEET YOUR GOALS?ON TIME AND ON BUDGET.How do you rein in the scope of your project when you?ve got a group of demanding stakeholders breathing down your neck And map out a schedule everyone can stick to And motivate team members who have competing demands on their time and attentionWhether you?re managing your first project or just tired of impr...

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No coverThe Economist
The Economist

Business Strategy 3rd edition

Description

The effectiveness of a good strategy well implemented determines a business' future success or failure. Yet history is full of strategic decisions, big and small, that were illconceived, poorly organised and consequently disastrous. This updated guide looks at the whole process of strategic decisionmaking from vision, forecasting, and resource ...

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Book cover for “Humble Leadership”
Humble Leadership

The Power of Relationships, Openness, and Trust (The Humble Leadership Series)

Description

Bestselling author and father of organizational behavior, Edgar Schein and Peter Schein trailblaze with a creative perspective on leadership that encourages vulnerability and empathy as a form of strength.The more traditional form of leadership that is based on immobile hierarchies is growing increasingly outdated and ineffective. Without the abil...

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Book cover for “Logistics & Supply Chain Management”
Logistics & Supply Chain Management

Logistics & Supply Chain Management

Description

The UK's bestselling book on logistics and supply chain management over 100,000 copies sold.Effective development and management of supply chain networks helps businesses cut costs and enhance customer value. This updated 5th edition is a clear guide to all the key topics in an integrated approach to supply chains.As well as new and updated examp...

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No coverTopgrading
Topgrading

The Proven Hiring and Promoting Method That Turbocharges Company Performance

Description

?BRAD HELPED US DEVELOP THE TOOLS TO PICK APLAYER LEADERS AT GE.? ?JACK WELCH Great companies, large and small, rise or fall because of their talent; the more high performers on your team, the more successful your organization will be. Of course, that?s easier said than done. Research shows that only about 25% of all new hires turn out to be high...

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No coverThe New Rules of Management
The New Rules of Management

How to Revolutionise Productivity, Innovation and Engagement by Implementing Projects That Matter

Description

A guide for modern organisations about optimising productivity, creating a culture of innovation, and building highperforming teamsIt's time to stop managing and start implementing. "The New Rules of Management" is about creating and implementing projects that truly matter, because when projects don't matter, individuals and teams become disengage...

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Book cover for “A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge”
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Available recommendation signals cluster around Management, NonFiction, Business lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for business judgment, leadership, or practical strategy. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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No coverBrilliant Project Management
Brilliant Project Management

What the Best Project Managers Know, Do and Say

Description

Whether you are organising an important event or heading up a large team, running a project can be a daunting process. Spiralling costs and missed deadlines are part of everyday life for many project managers in fact, more projects fail than succeed!But project management doesn't have to be this way. It is possible to manage projects that consist...

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Book cover for “It's Not About the Coffee”
It's Not About the Coffee

Lessons on Putting People First from a Life at Starbucks

Description

During his many years as a senior executive at Starbucks, Howard Behar helped establish the Starbucks culture, which stresses people over profits. He coached hundreds of leaders at every level and helped the company grow into a worldrenowned brand. Now he reveals the ten principles that guided his leadershipand not one of them is about coffee. Be...

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Book cover for “Essentials of Supply Chain Management”
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The bestselling guide to the field, updated with the latest innovations Essentials of Supply Chain Management is the definitive guide to the field, providing both broad coverage and necessary detail from a practical, realworld perspective. From clear explanation of fundamental concepts to insightful discussion of supply chain innovation, this book...

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No coverAgile Project Management
Agile Project Management

Creating Innovative Products (2nd Edition)

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Best practices for managing projects in agile environmentsnow updated with new techniques for larger projects Today, the pace of project management moves faster. Project management needs to become more flexible and far more responsive to customers. Using Agile Project Management (APM), project managers can achieve all these goals without compromi...

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No coverThe Fast Forward MBA in Project Management
The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management

The Comprehensive, EasytoRead Handbook for Beginners and Pros

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The allinclusive guide to exceptional project managementThe Fast Forward MBA in Project Management is the comprehensive guide to realworld project management methods, tools, and techniques. Practical, easytouse, and deeply thorough, this book gives you answers you need now. You'll find the cuttingedge ideas and hardwon wisdom of one of the fi...

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Book cover for “Managerial Accounting”
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As the longtime #1 bestseller, Garrison has helped guide close to 3 million students through managerial accounting since it was first published. It identifies the three functions managers must perform within their organisations plan operations, control activities, and make decisions and explains what accounting information is necessary for th...

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No coverWork Together Anywhere
Work Together Anywhere

A Handbook on Working Remotely Successfully for Individuals, Teams, and Managers

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"An excellent guide on how teams can effectively work together, regardless of location."STEPHANE KASRIEL, former CEO of UpworkIN TODAY'S MODERN GLOBAL ECONOMY, companies and organizations in all sectors are embracing the gamechanging benefits of the remote work­place. Managers benefit by saving money and resources and by having access to talent ...

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No coverThe Supply Chain Revolution
The Supply Chain Revolution

Innovative Sourcing and Logistics for a Fiercely Competitive World

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The secret to succeeding in a disruptive world. When CEOs think about the supply chain, it's usually to cut costs. But the smartest leaders see supply chain and sourcing for what they can be: hidden tools for outperforming the competition. Steve Jobs, upon returning to Apple in 1997, focused on transforming the supply chain. He hired Tim Cookand t...

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No coverThe lazy project manager, 2nd edition
The lazy project manager, 2nd edition

How To Be Twice As Productive And Still Leave The Office Early

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The Lazy Project Manager has been the project management book to own in the last six years and now this new edition brings the art of lazy productivity bang up to date. Anyone can apply the simple techniques of lazy project management to their own activities in order to work more effectively and improve their worklife balance....

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No coverEscaping the Build Trap
Escaping the Build Trap

How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value

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To remain innovative in today s market, companies have to adopt a culture of learning and customercentric practices that are focused on outcomes rather than outputs. This book provides product managers with a practical process that focuses on finding opportunities to solve customer problems and achieve business goals.Author Melissa Perri provides ...

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No coverOperations and Supply Chain Management
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Resourceful companies today must successfully manage the entire supply flow, from the sources of the firm, through the valueadded processes of the firm, and on to the customers of the firm. The fifteenth edition of Operations and Supply Chain Management provides wellbalanced coverage of managing people and applying sophisticated Technology, to ope...

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No coverSales Management. Simplified.
Sales Management. Simplified.

The Straight Truth About Getting Exceptional Results from Your Sales Team

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Because managing sales doesn't have to be so complicated.Why do sales organizations fall short Every day expert consultants like Mike Weinberg are called on by companies large and small to find the answer?and it's one that may surprise you. Typically the issue lies not with the sales team?but with how it is being led. Through their attitude and ac...

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No coverLead from the Future
Lead from the Future

How to Turn Visionary Thinking Into Breakthrough Growth

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From the author of the groundbreaking book Reinvent Your Business Model, a new approach for thinking about the future and turning your most promising and creative ideas into reality. We all know visionary leaders when we see them. In business, they are lastnameonly disrupters like Jobs, Bezos, and Hastings, and, in politics, they are such transfo...

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Book cover for “Negotiation Genius”
Negotiation Genius

How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond

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From two leaders in executive education at Harvard Business School, here are the mental habits and proven strategies you need to achieve outstanding results in any negotiation.Whether you?ve ?seen it all? or are just starting out, Negotiation Genius will dramatically improve your negotiating skills and confidence. Drawing on decades of behavioral r...

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Book cover for “Explosive Growth”
Explosive Growth

A Few Things I Learned While Growing To 100 Million Users And Losing $78 Million

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Ranked 'BEST STARTUP BOOKS OF ALL TIME'' by BenzingaRanked' BEST GROWTHHACKING BUSINESS BOOKS' by Entrepreneur.com#1 BESTSELLER in 5 Startup & Entrepreneurship CategoriesThis compelling and inspiring narrative gives entrepreneurs a rare behindthescenes look inside a fastgrowing startup that created the first online dating app and grew to 100...

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No coverTime Management for System Administrators
Time Management for System Administrators

Stop Working Late and Start Working Smart

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Time is a precious commodity, especially if you're a system administrator. No other job pulls people in so many directions at once. Users interrupt you constantly with requests, preventing you from getting anything done. Your managers want you to get longterm projects done but flood you with requests for quickfixes that prevent you from ever gett...

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No coverFranklinCovey Project Management for The Unofficial Project Manager Paperback
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No project management training No problem!In today?s workplace, employees are routinely expected to coordinate and manage projects. Yet, chances are, you aren?t formally trained in managing projects?you?re an unofficial project manager.FranklinCovey experts Kory Kogon, Suzette Blakemore, and James Wood understand the importance of leadership in pr...

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Book cover for “Essential Scrum”
Essential Scrum

A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process (AddisonWesley Signature)

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A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process The SingleSource, Comprehensive Guide to Scrum for All Team Members, Managers, and Executives If you want to use Scrum to develop innovative products and services that delight your customers, Essential Scrum is the complete, singlesource reference you've been searching for. Leading Scrum coach a...

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No coverThe Ideal Team Player
The Ideal Team Player

How to Recognize and Cultivate The Three Essential Virtues

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In his classic book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni laid out a groundbreaking approach for tackling the perilous group behaviors that destroy teamwork. Here he turns his focus to the individual, revealing the three indispensable virtues of an ideal team player. In The Ideal Team Player, Lencioni tells the story of Jeff Shanley, a...

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No coverStart with NO
Start with NO

The Negotiating Tools that the Pros Don't Want You to Know

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Start with No offers a contrarian, counterintuitive system for negotiating any kind of deal in any kind of situationthe purchase of a new house, a multimilliondollar business deal, or where to take the kids for dinner. Think a winwin solution is the best way to make the deal Think again.For years now, winwin has been the paradigm for business...

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No coverMaking Things Happen
Making Things Happen

Mastering Project Management (Theory in Practice)

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In the updated edition of this critically acclaimed and bestselling book, Microsoft project veteran Scott Berkun offers a collection of essays on fieldtested philosophies and strategies for defining, leading, and managing projects. Each essay distills complex concepts and challenges into practical nuggets of useful advice, and the new edition now ...

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No coverThe Lords of Strategy
The Lords of Strategy

The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World

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Imagine, if you can, the world of business without corporate strategy. Remarkably, fifty years ago that's the way it was. Businesses made plans, certainly, but without understanding the underlying dynamics of competition, costs, and customers. It was like trying to design a largescale engineering project without knowing the laws of physics. But ...

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No coverHiring Smart!
Hiring Smart!

How to Predict Winners and Losers in the Incredibly Expensive PeopleReading Game

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Hiring Smart!: How To Predict Winners And Losers In The Incredibly Expensive PeopleReading GameNow in Paperback!People are the most valuable asset in today's fiercely competitive workplace. In HIRING SMART, now available in paperback for the first time, Dr. Mornell delineates 45 simple strategies for "people reading"observing a candidate's beha...

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No coverBy Daniel Goleman Leadership
By Daniel Goleman Leadership

The Power of Emotional Intellegence (1st First Edition) [Paperback]

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Daniel Goleman?s Leadership: The Power of Emotional Intelligence ? Selected Writings is the author?s first comprehensive collection of his key findings on leadership. This oftencited, proveneffective material is essential for stellar management, performance and innovation. The collection makes available his most soughtafter writings in one singl...

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No coverFirst, Break All the Rules
First, Break All the Rules

What the world's Greatest Managers Do Differently

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